Beyond Zipf’s Law: The Lavalette Rank Function and Its Properties

• Oscar Fontanelli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oscar Fontanelli, Wentian Li

  * E-mail: ofontanelli@ciencias.unam.mx

  Affiliation Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, DF, México

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2381-7035

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• Pedro Miramontes ,

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, DF, México, Bioinformatics Group and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Yaning Yang ,

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Germinal Cocho ,

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, DF, México

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• Wentian Li

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oscar Fontanelli, Wentian Li

  Affiliation The Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States of America

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